English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 70

When the cat saw them, she did not wait for bidding, but jumped out of the captain's arms, and in a few minutes laid almost all the rats and mice dead at her feet.

Who acts: cat, puss · What happens: see, not wait, jump out, lay · To what, where: rats, arms

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, puss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 jumped	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wait	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wait	advmod
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 bidding	case
12	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wait	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jumped	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 jumped	cc
15	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	out	out	ADP	_	21 arms	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 arms	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 captain	det
19	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arms	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 captain	case
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 jumped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laid	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 minutes	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 minutes	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 minutes	amod
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 laid	obl
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 jumped	conj
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 all	advmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 rats	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rats	det
32	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 laid	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mice	cc
34	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rats	conj
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rats	amod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dead	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the cat	rats = rat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	not wait	past · do-support	puss			for bidding	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump out	past		the captain's arms			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme arm=Trajectory
4	lay	participle		all rats and mice	minute		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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